The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-26
The ELEMENTS UNLOOSED.
BRIDGES AFTER BRIDGES SWEPT
FROM THEIR BEARINGS.
Marrow Escape Of n Train From
Being Carried Away-HIghest
Water Ever KNOWN.


before in its history has Miller's Falls
experienced such damsge by water as
was occsbioned by sundsy's ireahets.
Between that towp and Ervlng, dis.
lance Of six mibs, are twenty-five
washcuts and eleven land slides by
actual count. Daring Sundays violent
rain, q torrent Of water came rushing
down the mountain road jutt east Of
tho Flchburg depot, Outlying II badly.
In q short time depot flat was buried
under three feet Of water. Just
east Of the passenger station
Is the freight depot. This the water
totally undermined, tearing q chssm
sixty feet wide and twelve deep
through the grsvelly soil. Passing
underneath the aide tracks. II dropped
freight and coal cars into the chssm,
end mp. The torrent rushed down the
steep incline 10 the river, 200 feet,
tearing q gorge twenty feet deep and
fifty feet wide, undermining the coal
sheds and shade trees in it's passage.
South Of the Lake House is another
gully ten feet deep aud fifteen wide.
On Sunday the Lake House was com.
pletely
SURROUNDED ny AN ANGRY FLOOD,
a portion Of the south end OF the build.
ing Ia undermined. Sections OF the
Fiichburg Isilroad yerd tracks are I'm.
dermined in places quite badly,
Bridges street lie quilted 80 as 10 be im.
paesabe. Pine Meadow TO the high.
way bridge nj Mortified farms 10
washed away, and the highway bridges
between Milloi's Falls aud Ewing are
all gone, so that travel by team 10 i'm
possible, on which account q transfer
Of passengers cannot be made. Toe
Ewing highway, passing through the
woods near the river on the flats, Is
six feet under water, and the culvert
over the ravine at the mouth OF Mill.
er's river is washed ont twenty-five
feet deep. All travel between Miller's
Falls and Mortified Ia cat of. A
prominent railroad man said this Of.
ternoon that II the railroad puts on ito
entire free OF workmea IL will take
fully two weeks before tho road IL
anywhere re " repaired. The sweep.
Ing awsy OF the iron railroad bridge
below hero this morning further com.
plicates matters. Report just reaches
here that Stcne dam al Erving and the
Erving
MILL DAMS HAVE BKKs WASHED
away, hut II Ia not yet cor firmed. A
large number OF Boston passengers are
delayed ut Miller's Fallr, unable 10
get through, and are liable 10 remain
Ueveial days unless the water cub.
sides 90 that passsge by team eau be
made around the tceno OF the dieaf
ter. Oh the twenty, Eve wAshort,
mentioned above either one q large
enough TO epgulf q tain, and Il b. a
wonder that no fatalities have result.
ed. There 10 general block.
ade Of Traffic on both sides Of
Erving. About q mile and half
east oil Milltr's Falls station lisa wash.
out under the track thirty feet long
aud six feet deep. A mile beyond thif,
NJ the bank wall, the track Ia quilted a
distance Of 100 feet and forty feet deep.
Between that point and the spot where
the bridge went down this morning
are twenty-five other wsshou,s, rang
ing from ten 10 thirty feet In width By
four 10 twenty feet In depth. At Wen.
dell several
HIGHWAY BRIDGES ARE down
and al roads badly washed. Harm
m'lldam, GoddATd's dam, Allen and
Ebsn Colllor'a saw mill dams IN the
vicinity OF Ewing are oil washed
away. Most Of the damage on the
railroad and highway was caused BY
the swelling Of email mouutain
streams, which, rushing from the
hillsides, made raging iorreng A
bridge near Alden't pond 10 Stshtd
away and 200 fsoi OF the highway
badly quilted. No.irAlns haye passed
east OF Greenfield today. A Vaterspout
struck the highway between Green.
Geld and Lake Pleasant Sunday, lsay.
ing hole thirty feet lorg. four feet
deep and ten feet wide. The
principal culverts on the highway
between Montague and Montague City
have been washed out, seriously do
laying travel, and all hill towns have
suffered severely. Altogether these
are the wofBt, washouts that Franklin
county has experienced In many
years, and singularly tnough they are
all within a radius Of six miles. No
malls or papers have got through from
the East tince Sunday morning. The
Ewing olectmen say they hope 10 get
the highway repaired sufficiently 10
transfer malls tomorrow.
The ticket Office hero has temper.
arily stopped selling tickets 70 points
Eat Of this station. Heavy stock
trains have blocked the gliding here
today awaiting transportation. To-
night long trains Of cattle, eheep and
swine we're transferred Fast via the
Connecticut River road al Keene.